The numbers are staggering: 160,000 Allied troops. Five thousand ships and 13,000 aircraft. All to take a heavily fortified 50-mile stretch of French shoreline, a herculean effort to reclaim a ...

Nicholas Hartman of Houston died in 1944 Allied invasion, but his remains could not be identified until this year. Advances ...

WIESBADEN, Germany — Over 80 years ago, Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy in a bold assault that changed the course of history and set the standard for coalition warfare. The lessons ...

CHICAGO -- Vietnam veteran Jerome Weatherspoon has a special hobby. Weatherspoon, a 67-year-old retiree, reconstructed the battle scene of the Invasion of Normandy, complete with replica war planes ...

This video explores the German coastal defenses at Longues-sur-Mer, one of the most intact and strategically significant strongpoints of the Atlantic Wall on D-Day. It examines how the site’s concrete ...

D-Day veterans discuss the challenges they faced at the invasion of Normandy. NORMANDY, France, June 5, 2009 — -- You can learn the most interesting things riding on a train. The train I'd chosen ...

(CNN) — Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. The invasion – codenamed Operation ...

Battleship Texas may still be undergoing renovations, but the public will be able to view parts of the ship for the first time since before the pandemic as part of its upcoming Normandy Tour.

The 81st anniversary of the famous U.S.-led D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, was recently commemorated. Less well-known are the battles during the days and weeks that followed in Normandy, which ...